Moving On

STORM Models founder Sarah Doukas says the cocaine scandal that put Kate Moss in the spotlight in 2005 has had no long term effects on her career.

"All press is good press in the world we live in," Doukas said during yesterday's episode of Desert Island Discs on Radio 4. "I took a strategic view of it, I just thought she will be fine, and I knew that some of my great clients, that were huge clients to her, they stuck by and said 'we are in your capable hands, we will stick by her' - and they did."

Doukas, who first discovered Kate Moss in JFK airport when the model was just 14, added: "The thing I felt strongly about her was, regardless of anything, the fact that Kate wasn't a sort of Hollywood actress - she hadn't put herself out there, she'd never done interviews, she hadn't done Hello!" However, Moss has since "taken on board" her position as a role model, she said.